Short interest in Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NEA) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.41M to 1.58M. This put 0.53% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 844.98K shares traded per day, it would take 1.87 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.